Prison Blogs, Inmate Stories & Incarcerated Writers

Walls Hold Us, Words Free Us.

Prison blogs give incarcerated writers a place to share their voices, stories, letters, poems, and reflections from inside prison.

Every cell holds a story worth hearing. Walls Hold Us, Words Free Us is a space where readers and pen pals can listen, learn, and connect with the people behind the walls. These are not just stories — they are real lives, real thoughts, and real people hoping to be heard.

Every word shared is a reminder that even when walls hold us, words can still set something free.

Life Behind Bars

Life Behind Bars

From day to day I meet all sorts of people in prison, and time after time this place never fails to amaze me. First off, you have the guys who make a life in here and run the show from tier to tier. We call those the “Tier Heavies”. Then

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Broken but Unbreakable

Broken but Unbreakable

Our criminal justice and prison system are so broken they’re unbreakable. Allow me to explain, our society and economy is so dependent on keeping individuals locked up that it is intrusive to rehabilitate or even help individuals get better. Millions of state and federal jobs are reliant on locking individuals

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Love is....

Love is….

When you cherish and appreciate a person, when you don’t judge and accept a person for who they are, when you have a person’s back it doesn’t matter what obstacles they face in life. When you uplift, encourage, strengthen and motivate a person to enjoy life, so they’ll be happy

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Check Me Out

Check Me Out

Check me out on: FB — GassMann  Snapchat — youngtucci2 Instagram — Stacksthepresident

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Good and Hard Ways

Through The Good and Hard Ways

I’ll start off by saying something about me: I live to represent the things learned through the good and hard ways. We can talk endlessly about the good things we learned from the teachings of our parents & others, to the never ending ways life gives us.  Based on this

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don't need to change

You don’t need to change

Reasoning isn’t real. It’s not how you feel. Reasoning is a compromise just like a deal. A deal is a contract. An agreed upon rule and you don’t gotta go to school to learn how to be a fool. Life will teach you that, especially love… Unless you search from

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Full Moon in Cancer

Full Moon in Cancer – December 2023—January 2024

Welcome to the Mystic Corner! Here is a more esoterically inspired manifestation of the full moon in Cancer. With the moon pointing to our psychological functions, feelings and daily habits in pursuit of our security needs… This moon placement spiritually speaks to the nourishment of our soul.  Our focus then

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My Point Of View

My Point Of View

I see the world through a chain linked fenceWhere once was beauty, but now is dense Though thinly made and standing tallIt might as well be a solid wall The birds sweet song, no longer ringsNor does that of many things And there’s no one man that can break that

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Full Moon is in Gemini

Full Moon is in Gemini | November 2023

Welcome to Divinity Corner! BaKhuSaShekemAum here to help you navigate the energies from this month’s lunar cycle. This month the full moon is in Gemini. Gemini’s primary influence is communication and thinking. It’s governed by Mercury. The Moon’s energy affects our personality by generating behaviors such as superficiality, scattered mindedness,

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